Maria Elisabeth Van der Sleyen

See the posts : "July 22 1860" and several others.

On that day Maria Elisabeth Van der Sleyen died in the Koestraat in Pamel. She had been born on May 11 1811. Her parents were Michael (Pamel 1758 - 1827) and Petronella Van Eeckhoudt (Pamel 1771 - 1828). In 1834 she married Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1811 - 1881). They were farmers.

They had eight children :

-- Henrica (Pamel 1835 - 1873) who married Jacobus De Doncker in Pamel in 1864 ; Jacobus, born in Pamel in 1838, remarried after Henrica's death and got a divorce from his second wife in 1882 ; he may have died in Lille, date unknown.

-- Philomena (Pamel 1837 - 1870) who married Simon De Roock (Pamel 1838 - 1909) in Pamel in 1864. He too remarried after Philomena's death ;

-- Antonia (Pamel 1840 - I haven't yet researched the date of her death, probably in Meerbeke) who married Ludovicus De Schepper in Pamel in 1862. They were the great-grandparents of my father ;

-- Petrus Josephus (Pamel 1843 - 1891) who married Appolonia De Paepe in Pamel in 1873) ;

-- NN a baby in 1845 - it died on the day of its birth ;

-- Benedictus, who lived for almost three months in Pamel in 1847 ;

-- Jan Baptist (Pamel 1850 - 1860) ;

-- Felix (Pamel 1853 - 1941), who married Blondina Muylaert (Denderhoutem 1849 - Pamel 1942) in Denderhoutem in 1882. They were the maternal grandparents of my mother.

My grandmother, Maria Antonia De Vidts (Pamel 1885 - 1949), a daughter of Felix and Blondina, thus knew none of her paternal blood uncles or aunts, with the possible exception of Antonia, who probably was her godmother, and possibly of Petrus Josephus (she was six when he died).